The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

Boy, why are you crying?

Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.